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Re: add-symbol-file/load and scripts


On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Jerome Guitton <guitton@adacore.com> wrote:

> the text's address, as initialized
> in the symbol file itself, would be the appropriate defaut.

AFAIU, on any UNIX system it would be appropriate default *only* for ET_EXEC.
For non-prelinked ET_DYN, one needs to add the base load address.

> We can ask ourselves if 0x6c000 would not have been an appropriate default
> for the second parameter of add-symbol-file... I am not sure it makes
> complete sense for any object format, though.

I think you've restricted your universe in the above statement to embedded
systems. My universe does not intersect with it :-(

Cheers,
-- 
Paul Pluzhnikov


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